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It’s Complicated! Ostomy Patients and Peristomal Skin

By Keisha Smith, MA, CWCMS

This overview details the five main categories of peristomal skin complications that wound specialists commonly treat in ostomy patients. If you’ve worked with ostomy patients for any length of time, you know that maintaining a proper seal can be difficult once the peristomal skin (the skin surrounding a stoma) has been compromised. The resulting complications […]

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